I am not terribly good at bowling, though I enjoy it quite a bit. The running joke on my old bowling league team I was on back in college was that I was our team handicap (four guys throwing around 200 or higher, and me with my rock solid 140……
Read MoreThe original Denpa Men game was a charming, if somewhat shallow dungeon crawler with a cute AR gimmick for acquiring the weird men-things that would do the fighting and adventuring on your behalf. Ultimately it was charming, but lacked the all-important sensation of context to make the adventuring really stand…
Read MoreFor some reason I missed the original Wii release of Donkey Kong Country Returns. I’m not sure if it just released at a really busy point in time, of it I was broke, or if it was some other reason, but despite loving Rare’s Super Nintendo trilogy, I skipped the…
Read MoreTime for one of those admissions that I probably shouldn’t make and then expect people to take me seriously afterwards; I prefer the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games to the real games. I know, I know. Mystery Dungeon games are repetitive and generally far more simple games than the real Pokemon…
Read MoreNintendo’s 3DS scores big in Japan, Saint’s Row IV looks absolutely insane and could Hellraid be Heretic reborn? It’s all in today’s Brutal Gamer News Wrap. The 3DS dominates the Japanese market To say that the Nintendo 3DS had a good week in Japan this past week is probably a…
Read MoreLet’s talk about why Code of Princess exists for a moment. Here is a game that is close to a first for the Nintendo 3DS; a full-priced retail game that was sold exclusively over the eShop in some parts of the world. Why not release it at retail? That’s easy,…
Read MoreSomewhere along the line, Mirror of Fate lost me. I’m not quite sure exactly where that was, and I did manage to struggle on despite not really engaging with the experience, but there was definitely a point where this game went from being filled with potential to being a startlingly-simple…
Read MoreLeave it to Fire Emblem to get me playing my 3DS to the point where the battery is dying. I hadn’t seen that little red light for months, what with the majority of my time with the console being spent enjoying short spells of silly rhythm games and Virtual Console…
Read MoreThe first thing you’ll notice about Soccer Up 3D is that its content is disappointingly limited. While it is a downloadable sports game on a handheld, the goal (no pun intended), of delivering a game with an attractive offering means it should feature some substance that will leave the player…
Read MoreI’ve just sat down to start a play through of Fire Emblem – it’s finally out in Australia, see, and it’s one of the few Nintendo franchises that I will put aside healthy activities like eating, sleeping and washing to play. Seriously; when I start playing a Fire Emblem game…
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